Saturday, March 29, 2008

TEAM - Noteworthy or Not Worthy? PART 3

Here is the third installment of an email exchange between myself and the author of the IBO Rebellion Blog. I have only included IBO Rebellion's responses to my original question, just because my response to this one is rather lengthy.

IBO Rebellion offered to help me understand TEAM, what it does, and how it works.

I have modified this entry somewhat, in that I have entered my questions asked prior to IBO Rebellion's answers, so that you wouldn't have to scroll from my question to his answers, which are exactly as he typed them.

IBO Rebellion's responses are in red. Mine are in bold.

Date:

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:47:28 -0400

From:

"theiborebellion theiborebellion" Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by gmail.com.

To:

"Rocket Rocket"

Subject:

Re: questions

Rocket,

I will answer a few of your questions. I still find it rather strangethat you want any info at all if you use to be an IBO and have "no"ulterior motive. In the interest of time I will answer what I seefit.

In regards to the legal fund:

(1. Who manages it?2. Who decides the criteria on which it is utilized?3. Who has signing authority?4. Is there a vote or a quorum reached on who utilizes the funds?5. Does any TEAM member qualify if they contribute?6. Do the TEAM people who contribute to the fund have a say as tohow it's dispersed? )

I don't know the answers to any of those particular questions. Thefund is to defend various IBOs, which are many, who are in litigationwith A/A/Q. AAQ is famous for destroying their enemies by simplywasting money on lawsuits.

As far as TEAM goes:

(1. Are you compensated based on the amount of motivation that flowsthrough your group? If so, is that written anywhere when you present theTEAM concept to people? )

(2. Do you receive profits from people you have gotten to join TEAMattending meetings/seminars? If so, is there a profit schedule forthat?)

#2 Yes.... no there is not a schedule but there is a formula.

(3. Do you have a motivational products compensation plan? If so,is it in writing?)

#3 Not at this time...

(4. Do you tell others about the motivational compensation planwhen yourecruit them to TEAM? If not why not?)

#4 not currently... explain later

(5. Do you sell TEAM motivation and leadership products to anybodyoutside of TEAM? If so, who?)

#5 Yes, many corporate and church environments.

(6. What is it exactly that TEAM offers, other than leadershipskills you can obtain at any self help seminar? What is it thatsets TEAM apart?)

#6 TEAM has always sold leadership. There are obviously many waysto attempt to teach and improve ones leadership.TEAM's approach isobviously a longer term approach with increased results as opposed toa two day seminar that would have limited impact. What sets TEAM apartis the focus on character based leadership. There is a vast difference inteaching leadership and teaching character based leadership. TEAM not onlyteaches this but practices it.

(7. If TEAM is just fine on it's own, why the need to associate with acompany providing an actual end user product?)

#7 TEAM is fine on it own. The stability of its organization thru thistime proves that.

However, due to the current legal issues and environment I think it becamean obvious choice to align with another product based company. I couldelaborate here but legally it just doesn't make sense to do so. TheTEAM obviously has a long term vision of where we will be going. As withanything....timing is everything.

In closing I just want to address team profit sharing. TEAM has neverbeen able to be as transparent as we would like due to Q. Peoplequalify for ps by having two groups of 12 customers. The ps programis not based on a schedule as you mentioned earlier but instead a psfromula.(sic) This means all the money coming in is added, expenses arepaid, the formula is run against each profit sharers numbers andpeople are paid accordingly. More customers more money. There are nospecial deals for anyone. The formula is something protected by theTEAM as it is our competitive edge in the industry.

Currently due to legal concerns, the Monavie opportunity and TEAM arecompletely separate at the point of opportunity. Over time you willsee greater and greater transparency. Lets face it... that issue hasnot taken precedence over moving forward and surviving the attacks ofthe evil empire. Orrin has had this fight with Q for years. I takeit you have read much of my blog. The TEAMs first night book wasedited 14 times over the years because Q felt TEAM was telling toomuch.

You wrote me saying this:

Avoiding the issues will do nothing but hurt anyone attempting to build aTEAM business, whatever that may entail. Most people approached to joinTEAM will have the same questions I do. No answers will inevitably leadto nobody coming into your business.

I find that rather funny. What you don't seem to understand that inanything you do there is an element of trust. You go to work andtrust that they pay you after you work your 80 hrs. It really isn'tlikely that you know all the intricacies of your employers finances.The difference maker for TEAM is the leadership. So as cordial as youseem much of your comments appear otherwise. Hopefully this answersyour questions... I would hate to see you relegated to the negativeanon blogger pile....

TIR

Will the Rocket be satisfied with the answers provided?

Does he accept the answers at face value and move on with his life, wiser fromIBO Rebellion's influence?

Will the Rocket get to the heart of the matter while still facing an eviction notice from his evil Landlord?

Will the Rocket use new magic, learned from various MLM leaders, similar to the JediMind Trick to get the answers he wants, or will IBO Rebellion continue his freedom quest unabated?

2 Comments:

Of course, the whole problem is the IBO Rebellion wants to give vague, non-specific answers to Rocket's specific questions.

Isn't it funny that Mr. IBO tries to liken his business compensation to that of an employee ("trusting" you'll get paid for 80 hours work). We sure ditch the "business owner mentality" bent when we're backed in a corner, huh Mr. Rebellion?

Employees have to paid for their work. Ummm...it is called THE LAW! Read those posters at work that the Dept. of Labor requires to be displayed sometime.

True, an employee may not be concerned with the "intricacies" of their employers' finances (but many are!)

- BUT -

A "Business Owner" WOULD be interested in the finances of a TEAM organization, not just "trust" some "formula" and hope to be paid for their efforts!